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THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2014 VOLUME 26

The Weathervane can be found online at www.derbyweathervane.org

Water Festival

By Jonathan Wisler and Reid Hosp

Age: 10 and 11

Shawn and Kiri

By Kate Lewack

Age: 11

Check Out Derby Summer Arts…

Online!

www.summerartsatderby.org

Amazing videos from the Noontime Show

Great photos of friends

Useful information and notifications

Today we went to the water slides. It was

very steep and there was a cold pool at the

bottom.

Then we went to the little slide. It had a big

cold pool that had two slides.

After that we saw Brenden. He said, “You

should get towels because I’m going to put

you in the pool.” That made no sense to us

’cause we will be at gimp!

“Wow, what a great show today! Goodbye, and go 60’s!”

Later…

“Help, Shawn!”

“Kiri!”

15 minutes later…

“No, Kiri! Let’s hunt for Kiri, Derby Sum-mer Arts.”

The whole camp says: “Yeah!”

At Art 1, Alex says “Hi Kiri.”

Kiri says, “Shawn.”

Alex: “No Kiri, it’s Alex. When you can’t come to the Noontime Show, I will host and rule the camp! Ha ha ha!”

Kiri: “You are crazy.”

Will Shawn come to rescue Kiri?

Wait until tomorrow...

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Would You Rather? With

Lucy Nash What the Heck is that

Word??

By Ned Torrey

Age: 8

Ice Cream Sundaes

By Saleen Meyers

Age: 8

Q: Would you rather: Climb a mountain

made of snails or slide down a mountain

full of yogurt?

A: slide down a mountain full of yogurt

Q: Would you rather: Be attacked by a

thousand fire ants for a day or eat a ta-

rantula every day for a month?

A: eat a tarantula every day for a month

Q: Would you rather: Fall off a rope

bridge into lava or fall out of the sky

without a parachute onto a pile of rocks?

A: Fall off a rope bridge into lava

Q: Would you rather: Win the lottery or

live twice as long as an average human?

A: live twice as long as an average hu-

man

Q: Would you rather: Be famous or be

the best friend of someone famous?

A: Be famous

Q: Would you rather: be able to fly or

read minds?

A: fly

Q: Would you rather: Know the date of

your death or the cause of your death?

A: The date

By Caroline Patterson, Megan Bowen, Lucy Nash, and Kyra McConnell

Age: 11, 11, 13, and 13

Today’s word is…

4 21 8

This word is a challenge, and the first one

to answer will get $1, second place is 50

cents and third is 25 cents.

Answer at the circle area after 6th period to

get your cash! (Answer to me and you’ll

get it the next day.)

I love ice cream sundaes. They are just

so so sweet and nice and good. Too

sweet? I love them so so so so much.

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Top 4 Favorite Things

at Derby—a Survey

By Alexa Cohen

Age: 8

Hip Hop

By Charlie Donahue

Age: 9

The Little Pony, Part 2

By Ava Bub and Dori Manning

Age: 9

Random Challenges

By Charlie Donahue

Age: 9

My favorite period is Random Challenges.

I like random challenges because well we

do VERY random challenges and the

councilors are awesome [Alex , Evan, and

Josh]. Sometimes we just play fun gym

games that the awesome councilors make

up. Like today we did a paper airplane

contest an tried to throw the air plane as

far as you could. I love random challenges.

The stream said “No,” because Bob the

pony was using up too much water. The

stream was about to turn into a desert

because there was no water left. The pony

was furious, so he went to a different

steam, and he asked that stream if he

could use some of his water. The stream

said “No.” But little did the pony know

that the first stream’s brother was the sec-

ond stream that Bob had asked for some

water. But the first stream told the second

stream to say no when the second stream

had plenty of water left. So in the end the

pony learned that you can’t take, if you

don’t give.

A fun dance class at Derby is Hip Hop!

This year, five people are in the class. In

the class, you get to make up different

dance moves. Then they get put in the

dance! The class is also trying to make

the dance into the noontime show. Dark-

ia teaches the class, and Symone is the

CIT. The class is tiring so if you take the

class, you get a break. In the break, you

get water and you sometimes get food. If

you have to go to the bathroom, in the

break, you can do that too. The class is in

the room where teachers teach different

languages in the school year. The people

in the class like the class because they

think it is fun.

1 . n o o n t i m e s h o w ( 1 8 )

2 . s i n g i n g ( 9 )

3 . t h e w e a t h e r v a n e ( 7 )

4 . g y m ( 1 )

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Haiku

Mikey

By Brooke Halaby

Age: 11

Mikey is my neighbor’s cat but I wish it

was my cat. He never scratches you and

is friendly towards everyone. He’ll eat

any type of food and is always waiting

right by your door when you come back

waiting to play. As you pull in your

driveway he will meow his cute little

meow and it will reveal his little mouth

and teeth. Every time he finishes eating

something, no matter how small

amount it is, he’ll lick himself and

Mikey looks SO CUTE!!!! Once in a

while he’ll come in our house and roll

around on our carpet and get some of

his fur on it. In the morning he’ll wait by

our step and stretch really far and hold

onto the tree. Mikey always hunts for

chipmunks by putting them in his

mouth and torturing the chipmunk until

it dies. Sometimes we’ll feed Mikey

some chicken, tuna, salmon, and beef

treats. That way he’ll always come back! Minecraft 2

Animal crossing 2

Wii Sports 6

Pokémon 4

Mario Games 7

Legend of Zelda games 0

Donkey Kong Games 0

Other 4

By Andrew Jones

Age: 10

Survey of Favorite

Video Games

I love Summer Arts

Derby brings new ideas

Derby is the best!

By Grace Bowen

Age: 11

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By Dori Manning

Age: 9

A Song I Wrote A Very Random Fairy

Tale #4

By Brooke Halaby

Age: 11

Once upon a time, there was a very

FLUFFY bird, named Red, flying in the sky

with many other birds that were not

FLUFFY. All those other birds wished to

be fluffy just like Red but ignored the fact

that they weren’t fluffy and moved on with

their own life. But there was another bird

who all he wanted was to be FLUFFY. This

“other bird” was Red’s brother and was

always jealous of something that Red had,

but now he was so jealous he was willing

to do anything to be able to be fluffy. The

“other bird” didn’t even have a name be-

cause he was so jealous of the name Red.

The other bird even tried to do things that

would make Red jealous but it didn’t work

because Red didn’t worry about his broth-

er. The other bird needs to learn a lot from

Red. All the other birds who are friends

with Red at first wanted to be friends with

the other bird but realized he was jealous

everything. The other bird’s life is going to

be filled with jealousness instead of happi-

ness.

Never known someone like you before!

Someone who makes me laugh when I fall

down to the floor. I always see you in my

mind who makes me want to see you again

and again!

Never seen a girl as strong as you. Always

seeing the good in me. Never laughs when I

do something wrong. I love how you do

things. You do everything right. I always

need help. You are perfect, I am not. I don’t

know how you stay strong so long. You al-

ways know how to make me feel good!

Thanks for reading my song!

Seam ripping

Extra fabric

Winning is pinning

Ironing

Needle threading

Go for it!

A Class to Remember

(the class of classes)

By Caroline Patterson, Megan Bowen, Lucy Nash, and Kyra McConnell

Age: 11, 11, 13, and 13

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Vincent van Gogh

By Luc Kylander

Age: 9

World War 2 Clicker

By Luc Kylander

Age: 9

Noontime Show Update:

Wednesday

By Amy Zhang

Age: 10 Vincent van Gogh was a very good painter.

He painted a picture that’s hung up in the

clay room where Nancy teaches Yea Clay.

Vincent van Gogh painted a lot of sunflow-

ers. He painted a picture of a church. At

the time, none saw his talents. He painted

everything until one day he swallowed

paint and was restricted to drawing with

pencil. Vincent van Gogh was a very fa-

mous artist.

The World War 2 clicker was like Morse

code for the Americans, except it made

sound instead of light. It sounded like a

cricket so at night the Nazis could not

find out where they were. The Americans

hid in the bushes in the day but at night

they clicked and regrouped, then attacked

the Nazis when they were tired and worn

down. The World War 2 clicker was a

very smart way to find each other in

World War 2.

Yesterday’s noontime show was very fun.

Shawn dressed like a hippie, and Kiri

dressed like a flapper. First, Samantha

Hosp and Eliza Farley did “The Cup Song.”

Then Mo Fish and her husband sang “Love

is an Open Door.” Next Haley sang “Do

You Want to Build a Snowman?” After the

song, Delaney sang a song from High

School Musical. The Musical class per-

formed a song from the The Music Man.

The Rock Band played with Sophie sing-

ing. Everybody did a fantastic job!

In the noontime show on Tuesday, Kiri

and Shawn dressed up in Narwhal cos-

tumes made by Brooke! Also, Verna and

Eddie played some amazing African

drumming songs! After that, Nancy pre-

sented some beautiful quilts and WDRB

news station introduced the “weather

bees” and gave a wonderful act! That

was it for the noontime show on Tues-

day!

Noontime Show Update:

Tuesday

By Caroline Patterson, Megan Bowen, Lucy Nash, and Kyra McConnell

Age: 11, 11, 13, and 13

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Shawn the

Alien

The Comics Page

Disco

President

#2

By Ned Torrey

Age: 8

By Charlie Bruggeman

Age: 11

Flying

Black Bear

By Olivia Pace

Age: 9

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Day

Water

Pictures!